|
Meet the team! |
Principal Investigator
|
PABLO RIPOLLÉS
Pablo Ripollés is an Assistant Professor with a joint position between the Department of Psychology and the Music and Audio Research Laboratory (MARL) at New York University. He serves as MARL's associate director since September 2020. He received a B.M. in Computer Engineering from University of València (2009), an MSc in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Navarra (2011), and a PhD in Biomedicine from the University of Barcelona (2016). Dr. Ripollés work relies on creating a joint theoretical framework to study language, reward, memory and music with a clear objective: capitalize on music to shape cognition, and capitalize on cognition to shape music. CV | google scholar | Twitter | Email |
Lab Manager
|
MICHAEL McPHEE
Michael McPhee is a Junior Research Scientist and Lab Manager at New York University. He received a B.A. in Biology, Neuroscience, and Cognitive Science from Williams College (2015) and has been working with Dr. Ripollés from the lab's early days. Before coming to NYU, Michael was a research assistant in the Freiwald Lab at Rockefeller University and in the Maroja Lab at Williams College. Michael is interested in studying musical experience as the intersection of reward learning, social cognition, and neuroaesthetics, in visual-social cognition, and in philosophy of mind. |
Graduate Student
|
ELLIE ABRAMS
Ellie Abrams is a PhD student in NYU’s Cognition and Perception program working under the supervision of Pablo Ripollés and David Poeppel. Her research explores the experience of musical pleasure and its interaction with human memory and reward using behavioral, neural, and computational techniques. She is also interested in the speech-music interface and early auditory processing. Before starting her PhD, Ellie was a lab manager and research assistant at NYU’s Neuroscience of Language lab, where she investigated the neural correlates of musical pitch as well as the development of linguistic processing in the child brain using MEG. Previously she studied cognitive science and music at Pomona College, and she spent a summer researching melody perception and language development in preschoolers at UCSD’s Language Acquisition and Sound Recognition lab. CV | Email |
Graduate Student
|
ELENA GEORGIEVA
Elena Georgieva is a PhD student at NYU's Music and Audio Research Lab (MARL) working with Dr. Pablo Ripollés and Dr. Brian McFee. Before coming to NYU, Elena taught sound recording at Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), where she received her master’s degree in 2019. Elena is a singer and vocal producer and performs with several singing groups! Elena is interested in studying how people interact with music in their everyday lives and how technology can enhance those interactions. Broadly, she does music, psychology, and machine learning. Email |
Graduate Student
|
MICHAL GOLDSTEIN
Michal Goldstein is a PhD student in the Department of Music Technology and the Music and Audio Research Laboratory (MARL) at New York University. Her advisors are Mary Farbood (MARL) and Pablo Ripollés (MARL/Psychology). She received a B.A. in Musicology and Psychology (2016), and an M.A in Musicology and Cognitive Sciences (2019) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Michal is interested in the intersection between music theory and perception, and in using the experience of music listening in order to better understand the brain. |
Graduate Student
|
ANNA PALUMBO
Anna is a PhD candidate in the Rehabilitation Science Program at NYU, where she works with Dr. Pablo Ripollés in the Music and Auditory Research Laboratory (MARL) and Dr. Gerald Voelbel in the Department of Occupational Therapy. She also collaborates on research initiatives with Dr. Alan Turry at the Nordoff-Robbins Center for Music Therapy. Before beginning her doctoral studies, Anna received her master’s degree in music therapy from NYU. As a music therapist, she worked with adults with neurodegenerative disease, acquired brain injury and mental illness, as well as autistic people and other neurodiverse populations. |
Graduate Student
|
BRANDON CARONE
Brandon Carone is a PhD student in NYU’s Cognition and Perception program working with Dr. Pablo Ripollés. His research focuses primarily on the cognitive neuroscience of music, memory, and reward, and he is interested in studying the effects of music on cognitive and emotional development, the neural substrates of musical pleasure and spontaneous musical performance, and the use of musical tools to combat neurodegenerative disease. Brandon received his B.S. in Cognitive Science from UCLA, where he studied memory and cognition across the lifespan, and how music and memory processes interact in the brain. After graduating, he conducted clinical and developmental research at UCSD in studies that utilized a range of neuroimaging modalities alongside neuropsychological, clinical, and neurosensory assessments. Beyond academia, Brandon is a multi-instrumentalist who has been composing music for most of his life, and he has worked closely with the Music Mends Minds and Music & Memory non-profit organizations. |
